Lot 1186
  • 1186

Jacques Barraband (After)

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Jacques Barraband (After)
  • Histoire naturelle des perroquets: three prints
  • hand-colored engravings
  • each plate approx.: 329 by 258 mm 13 by 10 1/8 in
  • each sheet approx.: 512 by 336 mm 20 1/8 by 13 1/4 in
Three hand-colored engravings, 1801-05, on wove paper, framed (3 prints)

Provenance

Arader Galleries, Philadelphia.

Condition

The prints are in good condition, with wide margins. Each with a few pale mottled fox marks and small tears in the sheet edges, and an occasional small spot of discoloration. Two with a few small nicks and pin-holes along the disbound edge. The lower right corner of plate 11 replaced. Plate 78 with very faint damp staining in the upper third of the sheet. Plate 105 with inconspicuous flattened diagonal creases in the upper and lower margins. The versos in good condition.
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